Soft Refrain

The moment slipped away with fleeting grace,
A smile that vanished in the winds of time;
No hands could catch its swift, elusive pace,
No words could keep its rhythm or its rhyme.

The winds have shifted; now the skies have changed,
The sun no longer warms that tender scene;
The world, transformed, is foreign and estranged,
And what has been will never more have been.

The stars aligned but once, and now no more—
Their pattern lost within the endless night;
The chance that once stood open, now a door
That’s closed forever, fading out of sight.

Yet though that moment never comes again,
It lives within my heart, her soft refrain.

The Earth

The earth, 

once clad in winter’s shroud, 

now wears the Easter cloak of spring’s rebirth, 

her frozen breath dissolved in the warmth 

of April’s touch. 

 

From the darkness, 

light reclaims its throne, 

and the rivers run with wine, 

their mirrored souls reflecting skies 

that once lay veiled beneath the storm. 

 

The trees, once bare, 

now stretch their limbs in praise, 

adorned with blossoms soft and pale, 

each petal a prayer for the sun’s return. 

 

The fields awaken, 

no longer silent, 

as the winds hum ancient melodies 

that stir the seeds below. 

 

Life, like a whispered secret, 

emerges from the womb of time, 

its fragile wings outspread in faith 

to meet the dawn of what may come.

Never-Ending Night

I’ve often dreamed of love that could be mine,

Where in my heart, hope softly starts to glow;

But all my feelings, I must now confine,

For you’ll not turn to me or ever know.

You are the sun, too bright for me to keep,

While I, the moon, just borrow distant light;

In silence, your beauty I must seek,

Alone within this never-ending night.

For every smile you give without a care,

Feels like a dagger cutting through my heart.

How can I live with all this deep despair,

When I know we will always be apart?

And though my love for you will never fade,

You will never hear the plea I’ve made.

Ode to a Headache

O Headache, thou art a silent warrior, with a crown of thorny rose,

That tightens with an iron grip, from my temples to my nose.

Thy subjects, we, in futile fight, do seek to ease our plight,

With potions, pills, and whispered spells, in the dimming of the light.

“Ode to a Headache,” I do declare, with a wry and weary smile,

For this royal pain within my head has lingered quite a while.

It taps upon my temples, a relentless, throbbing beat,

A reminder of the night before, and all that I did eat.

The chocolate was a villain, red wine played its part,

Each a merry prankster in the throbbing of my heart.

But fear not, for this tale does hold a twist or two,

For I’ve found a secret weapon, a potion tried and true.

With water as my ally, and rest to lead the charge,

I’ll banish this foul jester, and set my brain at large.

Scratch pad: poems

Upon the stage of fate, in Deptford’s gloom,

Where cobblestones echoed with whispered dread,

Marlowe, with gasping breath, met his doom,

“Neptune’s ocean clears not this blood,” he said.

In that dimly lit, foreboding room,

The world had lost a voice, too early, too soon.

——

A penguin once swam to a faraway land,

For sunshine and heat, his holiday planned,

But he baked in the sun,

Squawked, “This isn’t fun!”

And waddled back home, rather tanned.